Blog posts tagged
"Design"

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Canonical
21 April 2010

What makes a good design critic?

Design Ubuntu

While at CHI earlier this week, I went along to a session with the same title as this blog post. I was looking for some inspiration, something to take to a UDS (Ubuntu Developer Summit) session perhaps, something to turn into a blog post, food for thought.The session at CHI included a food critic, a

Canonical
21 April 2010

Canonical
15 April 2010

Reasons to celebrate 15th April 2010

Design Ubuntu

Karmic saw the first community wallpaper competition and delivered us a beautiful set of photographs for our desktops.Last cycle’s winners were this cycles judges and everyone has delivered.Ladies and gentlemen I give you the results of the wallpaper competition!Congratulations to the winners and huge thanks to the...

Canonical
15 April 2010

Canonical
14 April 2010

My image of the day

Notes Ubuntu

An example of Gemma Correll’s work.

Canonical
14 April 2010

Canonical
7 April 2010

The process of certainty. And mojitos.

Design Ubuntu

You know that feeling when you know someone very well and you buy them a present? You know they will love it and you are excited at the very thought of their delight? Part of you is a little scared though. A few butterflies in the stomach. What if I have misread? What if they

Canonical
7 April 2010

Canonical
3 April 2010

The Digital Economy Bill: Bananas!

Design Ubuntu

Over at Confused of Calcutta, JP Rangaswami has written a crystal clear article on why we should be concerned about the content and treatment of the Digital Economy Bill.Wherever you live, whatever your interests I urge you to read it.If you live in the UK, whatever your position I urge you to write to your

Canonical
3 April 2010

Canonical
24 March 2010

Reasons to celebrate: 24th March 2010

Design Ubuntu

Today is Ada Lovelace day.Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace was born on 10th December 1815, the only child of Lord Byron and his wife, Annabella. Born Augusta Ada Byron, but now known simply as Ada Lovelace, she wrote the world’s first computer programmes for the Analytical Engine, a general-purpose machine that...

Canonical
24 March 2010

Canonical
24 March 2010

Ada Lovelace and the Turing Test

Design Ubuntu

In Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Alan Turing describes the famous Turing test for detecting machine intelligence. Did you know that Turing’s thesis was heavily influenced by Ada Lovelace’s critique of Babbage’s Analytical Engine, wherein she states that “the Analytical Engine has no pretensions to originate...

Canonical
24 March 2010

Canonical
24 March 2010

It’s Ada Lovelace Day

Design Ubuntu

I’ve always liked Ada. She was the first to see the musical potential of computers. Here, look at this old blog post in which I mention her. As proof! Homebrew Adventures 😉A tip of my hat to Ada then. And tips all round to that small elite of n

Canonical
24 March 2010

Canonical
18 March 2010

Workarounds

Design Ubuntu

I was looking for new phone wallpapers last night and stumbled across loads of examples of this. The iPhone doesn’t have a main calendar screen like other manufacturers but what I love about this is the way that people have made do and shared their work with the world. There are themed ones, valentines ones,

Canonical
18 March 2010

Canonical
14 March 2010

Not that kind of bored

Design Ubuntu

Inspired by this brilliant picture and wee post over at the Panic Inc. blog I’ve not been able to shake the idea of making a similar status view for us to use when designing Ubuntu and related products. We’re always looking to enhance our processes and what I really like the idea of is creating

Canonical
14 March 2010

Canonical
12 March 2010

Love it from it’s Lucid ears to little Lucid toeses!

Design Ubuntu

I really can’t tell you how exciting a place to be Canonical towers is right now! Yes, it’s hard work keeping up with all the feedback from the community, we’re terrifyingly close to a release and have to deliver final and updated assets until the cows come home and YES it’s UDS in 8 weeks

Canonical
12 March 2010

Canonical
10 March 2010

Those pesky buttons

Design Ubuntu

Many of you have been asking for some correspondence regarding the button position in the window manager.Here it is.At Ubuntu we have a golden opportunity not only to make our OS as good as the competition but to make it better. The button position discussion and analysis started with:– Why do Mac OS and Windows

Canonical
10 March 2010

Canonical
9 March 2010

OS X Ubuntu USB Creator

Design Ubuntu

I’ve spent some time attempting to make a Cocoa that lets you burn an Ubuntu ISO to a USB memory stick on OS X.I think I’ve got as far as I’m gonna get with it now, sadly.How far I got…The UI is pretty conciseA USB stick gets detected when pl

Canonical
9 March 2010

Canonical
8 March 2010

Weekly design team picture

Design Ubuntu

Here’s a photo of Iain, design team project manager, edited to expose his love of colour:

Canonical
8 March 2010

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